Mr Sherwood received his award for using interactive and storytelling teaching methods to help first year economics students overcome their fear of learning statistics and increase self-belief in their ability.

"Many first year economic students have an innate fear of doing statistics, so my aim was to develop a teaching approach that made learning statistics enjoyable and meaningful," Mr Sherwood said.

"To achieve this I crafted a new statistics language using a series of fish farm analogical characters to try and create a set of stories to help students make sense of abstract concepts and hopefully beat the fear factor which is associated with learning statistics."